HSK 6 · Sport

田径 tiánjìng “athletics” in Chinese

Traditional 田徑

What 田径 means

  1. athletics
  2. track and field
  3. track and field (athletics)

How to say 田径

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale田tián2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale径jìng4th tone, falling

田径 in a sentence

  1. 田径运动会因天雨关系取消了。

    Tiánjìng yùndònghuì yīn tiān yǔ guānxi qǔxiāo le.

    The athletics carnival was cancelled because of rain.

    Sentence #349747 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 田径 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 田 (tián) with each of its parts in a different colour
田tiánfield
  • 冂down box · jiōng
  • 土earth · tǔ
The character 径 (jìng) with each of its parts in a different colour
径jìngfootpath; path; track; a way; a means
  • 彳step · chìMeaning part
  • 又again · yòu
  • 工work · gōngSound part

彳 hints at the meaning (step); 工 (gōng) hints at the sound. Compare it with jìng.

How to write 田径

田 5 strokes · 径 8 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

田径 (tiánjìng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 田径 (tiánjìng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 田径

Words with 田

田野tiányě · fields

Words with 径

直径zhíjìng · diameter途径tújìng · way

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FAQs

田径 (tiánjìng) means “athletics” or “track and field”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it tiánjìng: tián with a 2nd tone, then jìng with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 田径 is written 田徑. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type tianjing with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 田径 from the suggestions. Typing tianjing into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
田径 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.